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The Night Before Christmasby  Jared Kelly
It's Christmas Eve. The house is silent, everyone asleep. Except for 7-year-old Jake. Too excited to sleep, Jake needs to know if Santa has visited yet. Jake creeps downstairs into the lounge, over to the fireplace where his parents left some snacks for Santa. The snacks are untouched. No presents yet. Then Jake hears a noise from the fireplace, a faint scraping from inside the chimney... Yes! Could this be Santa bringing his presents?

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Rainy Night Killerby  Doug J Robbins
The Rainy Night Killer kidnaps Nick's wife and plays a game of cat and mouse with the wrong cop.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  Antwon Taylor
When a couple encounters an unassuming stranger in an elevator, their lives are drastically changed forever.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Labor of Loveby  John Porter
A young woman teases her fianc until she discovers he's willing to do almost anything to make her happy.

Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Alien Invadedby  Dexter Williams
A young lady visits an eccentric New Age hypnotherapist in order to get to the root of her recurring nightmares of being abducted by aliens.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Out On A Limbby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
An amputee Vet has volunteered for a program that promises her hope. But the new tech has opened up more than just hope, and the creatures that can now see her have already eaten her phantom limbs and hunger for more.

Genre: Horror
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Paradeby  William Douglas
Can a 10-year-old boy steal an unhappy elephant, find him a good home, fall in love and get his first kiss, all in one week?

Genre: Other
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cupid'sby  DJ Robbins
Cupid pressures his customers to try his Ambrosia, guaranteed to make the consumer fall in love, but the customers resist the dessert.

Genre: Artistic
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Life in a Dayby  John Porter
Two former lovers struggle to decide whether to love each other again or say goodbye forever.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Distractionsby  Bob Messinger
Similar backgrounds, different visions. David's and Hannah's lives are about to be upended as he gets in her cab on a Friday evening.

Genre: Drama
39 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ty wakes in a steel vault with a timer, a phone, and a deadly choice: press a button for air or let both die. Through a stranger's voice on the line, he questions morality, guilt, and survival. His refusal to play exposes a sinister experiment testing human ethicswhere even doing nothing has a fatal cost.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
One Wordby  Amar abdMual
A mother turns her disabled daughter into a hero.

Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Game of Thrones: In East L.A.by  Adam Rocke
On a crazy So Cal road trip, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen take a wrong turn and wind up in East L.A. where they run afoul of a notorious Mexican street gang. Violence is coming!

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Screens of the Damnedby  Anton Ballard
The Screens Of The Damned follows Angelica, a mortuary attendant and aspiring screenwriter working the night shift. Her solitude is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious John Doea deceased film producerwho critiques her work and begins a strange, possibly supernatural collaboration with her. As the script progresses, John Doe's involvement appears to influence real-world outcomes, culminating in Angelica's screenplay being greenlit, though his presence remains ambiguous.

Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Isle of Plasticaby  Drina Connors Kay
A CEO of a plastics company is kidnapped and dumped on a platform in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where he must remain until he promises to clean up the mess.  

Genre: Other
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trilogy of Terrorby  Bill Wyza
Trilogy of Terror is a trio of micro-short horror stories. DRIFTER - An overconfident lawyer on the verge of his biggest case makes a wrong choice on a secluded country highway. WISHBOOK - A desperate man finds a magical book and learns to be careful what you wish for. FEAR - A suburban serial killer gets an unexpected surprise.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Invisible Terrorby  Victor Titimas
When terrorized by his wife's vengeful spirit, a man must face the consequences of his actions.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Doctor Where?by  Elliot Stanton
Ralph's doctor is running late for an appointment, leaving him regretting a rash decision.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In the Bloodby  Jack Halliday
A P.I. resorts to supernatural means to solve a case where the suspect in three murders is an older man bedfast in hospital, despite the man's DNA & fingerprints being found at three crime scenes. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The New Schoolteacherby  George Baumann
A tall, dark-coated stranger strides into an isolated 1860s Bavarian village dogs retreat and geese scatter at the sound of his boot heels. He goes by Uffentussen, a misnomer derived from 'Affen Tassen' German for 'monkey cups.' Frau Trout, the self-appointed sentinel on the hill, slams her shutters at the sight of him. He's here to replace the beloved Herr Weisenkopf.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A-rrhythmiaby  Tigran Vardanyan
A reserved man visits a secluded seaside restaurant, masking his internal turmoil as he prepares for an evening with "guests" who may never arrive, culminating in a haunting act of finality that echoes his quiet despair.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Maria x Mariaby  Ruby Hernandez
When a submissive housewife discovers her body has regenerative properties, she uses it to build the family she always wanted.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Monsters of 1935: A Newsreel Farceby  Paul Joseph Mulbrecht
Two buffoonish 'researchers' have convinced the German government that the Loch Ness Monster is actually a mythological Germanic beast (dubbed "The Fat Flounder"). Now they've been given a grant to find the evidence. But their search will fail because of a conspiracy - one between their Loch Ness innkeeper, their guide... and Nessie herself.

Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lost Toys of Lester Lakeby  Jason K. Allen
Bill only wants to catch a few fish for dinner. The old, abandoned toys underneath Lester Lake only want someone to play with. (1 location, 1 actor. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Subject Strictly Off-Limitsby  Elliot Stanton
An argument about the TV show Strictly Come Dancing threatens a couple's marriage until they agree never to discuss the show again. However, the ceasefire only lasts until the discussion of what takeaway to order begins.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Make Haste Slowlyby  John Porter
Doc Holliday shares some wisdom with the outlaw Dave Rudabaugh--then meets Wyatt Earp.

Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Debateby  Gladman
During a final interrogation over a broken simulation, a defiant subject turns the tables on his examiner forcing him to question whether he, too, is trapped inside the very system he believes he controls.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cycleby  Ayisha Henry
When a homebody decides to enjoy a fun night out, she must defeat an evil, biological nemesis who does everything to ruin her plans.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The California Lifeby  Arianna Zufelt
When a young girl is kidnapped by a serial killer, a rookie detective must race against time to find her before she becomes his next victim. When the rookie detective finally finds the young girl. He called her parents that he has her in the police station safe and sound and ready to go home now. 20 years later the girl moved to California and got a job. And she lived her life there.

Genre: Animation
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Santa Soldierby  David Lee Hooker
The story follows a secret military unit sworn to protect Christmas. When terrorists target a small-town Santa parade to kidnap children, this elite squad has to go undercover in full holiday gear to save the kids and stop the chaos before Christmas is canceled.

Genre: Action/Adventure
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lamentby  Sarah Kennedy
A guitarist becomes an anomaly in a bleak and inhospitable future world where music is conjured and customized in the mind. Single location from an award-winning screenwriter.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Weekend at the Monasteryby  Mike Skidmore
Mike Dray decides to go to a MONASTERY to learn what he can about reincarnation after discovering through hypnosis that he has a past life and maybe even more.

Genre: Fantasy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ho-Ho-Ho-nly an Hour To Goby  Elliot Stanton
A department store Santa and his helper aren't the jolly individuals you'd expect them to be, particularly when the effects of Santa's alcoholic consumption threaten to become audibly evident to the line of waiting, excited children outside the grotto.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Kissby  Mary Goldman
Close platonic friends, Julia and Brandon, explore taking their relationship to a romantic level.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Royally Never Afterby  Lexie Sullivan
When a studious Chicago teen loses her only parent, she's unexpectedly invited to a prestigious royal academy in Englandonly to discover secrets about her true identity, a brewing conspiracy within the school's walls, and a destiny that might just change her life forever.

Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Vampire Experimentby  Brian Daunter
Genetic transfer and IVF research creates Vampire flying foxes with talon thumbs. They escape and terrorize the countryside attacking people, domestic and farm animals. A mix-up in the IVF laboratory leads to the birth of human neonate vampires that attack other neonates. These two new species qualify for listing as endangered. One species survives in a disused railway tunnel.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Young Poet's Dilemmaby  Mohammed Elmzaghi
As graduation approaches, an idealistic NYU math graduate student wrestles with whether to pursue financial security in Seattle or an uncertain life writing poetry in New York, finding hope in an unexpected connection with a young aspiring physician that may be more imagined than real.

Genre: Romance
39 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Beat Bobby Flayby  Adam Rocke
Iconic chef Bobby Flay must endure a brutal interrogation to keep his many culinary secrets safe.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Harvest Sonby  Charles Hall
Desperate to lift his family out of hardship, a migrant worker tracks down a Central American talisman believed to grant the bearer three life-changing wishes.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A lone hiker documenting her journey through a remote wilderness begins hearing an eerie echo leading her to a terrifying discovery about what's following her. At first, the echoes of her voice bouncing off the cliffs seem naturaluntil they start repeating words she never said. As paranoia sets in, her recordings reveal an unsettling truth: something in the wilderness is listening... and answering back.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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